Four Family Members Dead After Suspected 'Group Jump' From Seventh-Floor Balcony
Four family members—including an 8-year-old girl and 41-year-old twin sisters—are dead after a group of five reportedly jumped in unison from a seventh-floor apartment balcony around 7 a.m. Thursday in the Swiss resort town of Montreux on the banks of Lake Geneva. Police say all of the jumpers were French nationals and part of the same family living in the apartment. In the early hours of Thursday morning, authorities had tried to follow up on a wellness check related to one of the children, who was being homeschooled, but police were unable to enter the home and left.
A short time later, the family appears to have jumped off the balcony. Vaud police spokesman Alexandre Bisenz said the group seems to “have visibly thrown themselves into the void from an apartment” landing hard on the pavement below, where they were found by passersby.
Four people were pronounced dead at the scene: an 8-year-old girl, the child’s mother and father, and the mom’s twin sister. A 15-year-old boy is said to have potentially catastrophic injuries, and is in grave condition at a local hospital.
None of the jumpers were wearing shoes, according to witnesses who saw the bodies.
One neighbor who saw the bodies on the pavement told the paper that many people in the building thought the family belonged to a cult.
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